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1) True stories
Author
Publisher
Consortium Book Sales & Dist
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Helen Garner looks at the world with a shrewd and sympathetic eye. Her nonfiction, with its many voices, is always passionate and compelling. True Stories is an extraordinary book, spanning twenty-five years of work, by one of Australia's great writers."--Amazon.com.
3) A dream life
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the Armstrong family moves from New York at the dawn of the 1970s, Australia feels, to Alice Armstrong, like the end of the earth. Residing in a grand manor on the glittering Sydney Harbour, her family's life has turned upside down. As she navigates this strange new world, Alice must find a way to weave an existence from its shimmering mirage.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First North American edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1908, Mary Davidson, tasked with supporting her father's boisterous whaling crews while caring for her five brothers and sisters after the death of their mother, must navigate through sibling rivalries and an all-consuming first love for a new crew member.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in a broken-down property in the middle of a desert. Strangers to each other, they have no idea where they are or how they came to be there with eight other girls....In each girl's past is a sexual scandal with a powerful man. The Natural Way of Things is a gripping, starkly imaginative exploration of contemporary misogyny and corporate control, and of what it means to hunt and be...
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Describes the life and career of Steve Irwin, famously known as the Crocodile Hunter, from his childhood and early love of animals to his rise in popularity as a film and television star and naturalist.
Author
Publisher
Punto de lectura
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1a ed.
Language
Español
Description
Abandoned as a tiny girl on a ship headed for Australia, Nell Andrews sets out on a journey to England to try to trace her story, to find her real identity. Her quest leads her to Blackhurst Manor on the Cornish coast and the secrets of the doomed Mountrachet family. But it is not until her granddaughter, Cassandra, takes up the search after Nell's death that all the pieces of the puzzle are assembled.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
In the center of Australia lies a strange desert wilderness called the Dead Heart. It is difficult to imagine that anything can exist in such a harsh place. But the Dead Heart has a secret: it holds amazing stories of adaptation and survival. Follow in the footsteps of early explorers such a Charles Sturt and learn what the indigenous people of Australia have long known: not all is quite as it seems.
Author
Publisher
Scribe
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Intellectual. Feminist. Polemicist. Provocateur. This riveting biography of Germaine Greer traces the personal and political history of one of the most important, radical, and controversial women of twentieth and twenty-first century feminism. It reveals how her public persona has shifted with time from sixties trailblazer to present-day rabble-rouser, and why she endures as a subject of fascination. This is the first biography of Greer for two decades,...
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First US edition.
Language
English
Description
"A beautiful, evocative, and sometimes provocative memoir of Australia's unique landscape, and how that singular place has shaped Tim Winton and his writing. From boyhood, Winton's relationship with the world around him-rock pools, sea caves, scrub, and swamp-has been as vital as any other connection. Camping in hidden inlets, walking in high rocky desert, diving in reefs, bobbing in the sea between surfing sets, Winton has felt the place seep into...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When Indigenous woman Alex Irving gains national acclaim for her heroism against a rampaging gunman, Australia's embattled Prime Minister Rachel Anderson sees a publicity goldmine and handpicks Alex for the Senate. But Alex wants to be more than just a political stunt, and when Rachel betrays her, Alex seeks revenge that will upend the political establishment.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Australian and New Zealand edition.
Language
English
Description
From the global pioneer whose work inspired The 8 Week Blood Sugar Diet, a Iife-changing guide to reversing type 2 diabetes. For centuries type 2 diabetes has been regarded as an incurable, lifelong condition - a case of 'Abandon hope all yet who enter here'. Now, thanks to Professor Roy Taylor, there is a way out to reversing the fastest growing disease in the world. After years of studying the causes of diabetes, in 2006 Professor Taylor and his...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You and One Plus One, in an earlier work available in the U.S. for the first time, a post-WWII story of the war brides who crossed the seas by the thousands to face their unknown futures. 1946. World War II has ended and all over the world, young women are beginning to fulfill the promises made to the men they wed in wartime. In Sydney, Australia, four women join 650 other war brides on an extraordinary...
Author
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
"Offering insight into the life and experiences of the world?s oldest culture, this account of Australia?s Aboriginal history spans the mythologies of the Dreamtime through the modern-day problems within the community. Culture and history enthusiasts will get answers to such questions as Where did the Aborigines come from and when? How did they survive in such a harsh environment? and What was the traditional role of Aboriginal women? This story emphasizes...
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